Good rain knows the season, when spring is happening.
February 19, 2022
The nineteenth day of the first lunar month
We ushered in this wet solar term
- Rainwater
Rain is the second of the twenty-four solar terms, at this time, the temperature rises, the ice and snow melt, and the precipitation increases, so it is named rainwater.
The ancient book "Interpretation of the Seventy-Two Waiting Collections of the Moon Order" records:
"In the middle of the first month, the day is full of water. Spring begins with wood, and those who give birth to wood will also have water, so the spring will follow the rain. And when the east wind is thawed, it scatters into rain. "
Spring symbolizes growth and growth; rain is the source of life.
The ancients said that "when it rains, it is auspicious", the first rain since the beginning of spring, silently nourishing people's hearts, but also pregnant with the rebirth of all things.
Rain, the beginning of spring
Spring rain arrives, and everything lives.
Rain moisturizes everything. At this time, the earth warmed up, and the spring weather between heaven and earth was open.
If lichun is the "overture" of spring, but it has just sprouted in spring, and it will be warm and cold at first, then the rain will enter the second movement of spring, "variation".
People will obviously feel that spring has returned to the earth, the fields are full of life, and it is the season of "seven nine rivers opening and eight or nine geese coming" in the 99 songs, and the peasants are about to make spring ploughing.
As the saying goes, "spring rain is as expensive as oil", and the arrival of rain reminds people that it is time to plan for a good harvest of the year.
Rain fell on dead wood to meet spring, fell on the cracked yellow soil, and the seeds could germinate. In short, "spring rain is as expensive as oil", and all things are eager for this ganlin, waiting for a new life.
Rainy weather
In ancient times, rainwater was divided into three seasons:
1
On the first five days of the Otter Festival fish |, the otters catch the fish and display the caught fish on the shore, as if to worship before enjoying.
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Second wait: The wild geese come to | the second five days, when the weather in the south is warm, and the geese fly from south to north. Migratory birds travel with the changing yin and yang of heaven and earth to adapt to the climate.
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Three waits: grass and trees sprout| on the third five days, the yin and yang between heaven and earth intersect, and vitality appears, and grass and trees take advantage of this vitality and begin to sprout.
In addition, rain has three wonderful things:
Hongyan is full of love
"Yi Zhou Shu" has clouds: after the rain festival, "hong geese come" and "grass and trees sprout".
Hongyan Yu Fei, suppressing its feathers, came from the north, looking forward to the return of spring.
In such a season, brew a cup of tea, listen to a song of hong geese, and feel the affection of returning from afar.
Otter sacrifice spring fish thanksgiving
Spring water is born, otter fishing, displaying the shore, as if sacrificing heaven and earth, grateful for the spring rain for the moisture of life.
Every spring is the beginning of hope, and in the field of hope, we move forward with gratitude.
Rainwater health benefits are many
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" has clouds: "Spring rain has the qi of hair, the boiling qi is insufficient, and the medicine that does not rise in the clear qi is twice as effective." ”
After the rain, the weather warms up, and the health is heavy on the liver, liver wood, and muke spleen soil.
At this time, you should eat less sour foods, such as sour dates, plums, lemons, pineapples; eat more sweets, such as dates, yams, guiyuan, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tonify the spleen, liver and stomach.
Rainwater customs
"Rainy Day, Back to Mother's House"
The married daughter and son-in-law would go home to visit their parents and give their mother a jar of stew. For women who have not been pregnant for a long time, their mother sews a pair of red pants for them, which is said to be able to get pregnant as soon as possible.
The son-in-law is going to send a festival to his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Gifts for the festival are usually two rattan chairs with a red belt of one and two feet long wrapped around them, which is called "receiving life", which means to wish the father-in-law and mother-in-law a long life of 100 years.
"Rapaopao"
That is, the rain festival pulls dry daddy, which means "rain and dew moisturize and grow easily".
Occupy the color of rice
By stir-frying glutinous rice flowers, we can divine the color of the rice harvest that year. The more glutinous rice that bursts out of the white flowers, the better the harvest, and the fewer the rice flowers that burst out means that the harvest is not good and the price of rice will be expensive.
Rainwater health
After the rain, although the grass and trees sprout and the weather warms up, the cold current is also the most in the year, and there is often a "spring cold".
In terms of living, we should pay special attention to spring cover, at this time the climate is warm and cold, some people are eager to take off cotton clothes, so there is a saying of "chaotic dressing in February and August".
After the rain, the weather becomes warmer, the wind is dry, at this time you can drink more water, eat more fresh vegetables and juicy fruits to supplement the water required by the human body, enhance blood circulation, and promote metabolism.
Rainwater poetry
Jiangnan spring rain, hazy like poetry:
Thousands of warblers cry green and red, and shuicun mountain guo wine flag wind.
Four hundred and eighty temples in the south, how many buildings in the smoke and rain.
--Tang Dumu, "Jiangnan Spring"
Apricot blossoms spring rain, willow wind warm:
The ancient wood yin is tied to a short canopy, and the staff helps me cross the east of the bridge.
Wet apricot blossom rain, blowing noodles do not chill willow wind.
- Song Zhinan, "Absolute Sentence"
Drizzle breeze, do a day idler:
Egret flying in front of Mount Cissé,
Peach blossom flowing mandarin fish fat.
Green jacket, green coat,
Sloping winds and drizzle do not have to return.
- Song Zhang Zhihe, "Fishing Song"
A rain, dyed green a stream of spring water:
Spring rain is enough to dye a stream of new green.
Willow flew out of the double feather jade, and the qing qing bathed.
Outside the building, the green curtain is high and high, leaning all over the dry dry a few curves.
Clouds light horizontal smoke tree clusters, inches of sight.
--Wu Weizhuang, "Gurudwara, Spring Rain Foot"
In the rain, the ferry is idle and beautiful:
The lonely grass is born on the side of the stream, and there are yellow orioles on the deep tree song.
The spring tide brings rain to the evening, and the wild ferry has no one to cross itself.
--Tang Weiyingwu, "Xijian in Chuzhou"
Rain message
Spring is like this, in a night of breeze and drizzle, slowly coming.
What we will greet is not only a warm morning sun, but also a new and full of vitality ganlin blown by the east wind.
When the heart is clear, the rain is also clear; when the heart is raining, the sun is also rain.
Rain always ties up thousands of thoughts and hooks up infinite emotions.
The poet Haizi wrote:
Living in this precious human world, the dirt splashed high and hit the cheeks. Living in this precious human world, human beings are as happy as plants, and love is as happy as rain.
The rain returns, and everything is born.
Spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, and everything rejoices.
The gentle spring rain sprinkles vitality on this land, and the spring weather between heaven and earth is open.
The warbler grass is long, the flowering period has arrived, and in the increasingly lush spring flowers and green willows, enjoy the beauty of this season!
Rain is the auspicious hope of life,
May you be a pure man by the washing of the rain,
May you grow freely on this beautiful day,
Live the most beautiful appearance in the sun and rain.
May you this season, this life,
Like a drop of spring rain, warm and moist earthly;
Like a flood of spring water, long and affectionate.